Posted on 03/31/2024 10:27:09 AM PDT by Twotone
Spring has sprung! And I'm feeling rather like the dramatis personae in what is apparently now just another of those "problematic" pictures, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (although, personally, I far prefer the director's cut, Fourteen Brides for Fourteen Brothers - presumably even more problematic):
Oh, the barnyard is busy
In a regular tizzy
And the obvious reason
Is because of the season
Ma Nature's lyrical
With her yearly miracle
Spring, Spring, Spring...
In Spring a young man's fancy turns to songs about a young man's fancy. Not that you have to be homo sapiens to feel the old sap rising come mating season:
All the hen-folk are hatchin'
While their menfolk are scratchin'
To ensure the survival
Of each brand new arrival
Each nest is twitterin',
They're all baby-sitterin'
Spring, Spring, Spring...
That's Johnny Mercer and Gene De Paul in their score for Seven Brides... Out of the barnyard, alas, the whole business gets a little more fraught. Rare is the fellow who can sing, as Barry White and his Love Unlimited Singers did in the Seventies, that "It May Be Winter Outside but in My Heart It's Spring". The inverse is more common: it may be spring outside, but in my heart it's winter.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
I always know when it’s spring - my allergies tell me so...
Steyn is a man for Spring and really all the four seasons!
I live on a lake, and the birds are in full blown mating mode. Chasing each other, forming pairs.
A female mallard was on the pond yesterday. She was paddling around, looking lost. Then, her male mallard arrived - and she went crazy with joy to see him, bobbing up and down, ducking under water, etc. Very cute.
A pair of Canada geese always hangs near my place in spring. For some reason this weekend, they got separated after a flight. The female was on the lake squwaking loudly, trying to find “him.” Very upset. They finally found each other after half an hour....
I have 2 swans, and also a bald eagle family that hang out here too...
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